Trouser construction for retaining shirt fronts



B. STONE Dec. 19, 1933.

TROUSBR CONSTRUCTION FOR RETAINING SHIRT FRONTS FiledvJune 29, 1933 INVENTOR Patented Dec. 19, 1933 PATENT OFFICE TROUSER CONSTRUCTION FOR RETAINING SHIRT FRONTS Barbara Stone, New York, N. Y.

Application June 29, 1933. Serial No. 678,118

1 Claim.

This invention relates to trousers and has for its primary object a method of construction thereof, to provide a simple, economical and efficient means for holding down shirt fronts.

As is'well known, the ordinary type of shirt, due to bodily movement, has the tendency toward upward movement; creeping out over the trouser tops and if a vest is worn, the shirt tends to puff out at the open chest space and the collar tends to creep up the neck.

I am aware that numerous mechanical devices have been suggested for correcting this upward displacement. But these devices suffer from a common fault of being easily mislaid and lost, being easily broken or maladjusted or due to human nature, their use is discontinued as soon as their novelty has worn off.

My invention efficiently performs the function of holding down the shirt front and is integral in the pants construction and cannot be mislaid or broken and will last as long as the trousers Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following disclosure thereof together with the accompanying drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment thereof.

The figure is a perspective view of the fly construction on trousers.

The ordinary trouser as now made comprises a fly consisting of an inner flap 1 containing a vertical series of buttons 2 and an outer flap 3 containing the button holes 4, adapted to coact and join together the pants flaps. My invention consists of a series of button-holes 5 along the inner flap of such size and position as to cooperate and coact with a lower front shirt button 6 along the front central seam 7 50 of the shirt. When this shirt button is fastened,

in a suitably positioned button-hole on the inner flaps, the shirt front is held smooth and cannot creep or puff up.

The series of button-holes is used because of 55 the fact that on different shirts the position of the lower buttons does not always fall in the same place and the series permits the choice of a suitable buttonhole to give the proper tension.

- This invention may also be easily applied to 7 the trousers in which the fly is fastened by the so called, zipper or separable fastener.

I do not limit the scope of this invention to the number of button holes or the arrangement, position or placing shown in the drawing, but many variations are possible without departing from the scope of this invention as, for instance, the buttonholes may be applied on a tape attached to the fly flap.

Having thus described my invention, what I 3 claim is:

A trouser for holding down shirt fronts comprising a fly construction of a cooperating inner and outer flap, a vertical series of buttonholes on the inner flap adapted to coact with a lower 

